Géza Szőcs


Géza Szőcs is an ethnic Hungarian poet and politician from Transylvania, Romania, who served as Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources in Hungary from 2 June 2010 to 13 June 2012.

Life

He is the son of István Szőcs, an ethnic Hungarian writer and translator from Romania. He studied until 1979 at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj. On a proposal by András Sütő, he received a scholarship for 1979-80 semester to the University of Vienna.
From 1986 to 1989, after working in the scientific literature seminar of Babes-Bolyai University, Géza Szőcs went into political exile in Switzerland, where he worked in Geneva as a journalist. Between 1989 and 1990, he conducted the Budapest studio of Radio Free Europe. In 1989, he joined the staff of the magazine Magyar Napló of the Hungarian Writers' Association.
In 1990, Szőcs returned to Cluj and was active in the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, for which he sat from 1990 to 1992 in the Romanian Senate. From 1993 to 2010, he was editor of the magazine A Dunánál in Hungary. He was co-editor of the magazine Magyar Szemle and a member of the supervision of the Hungarian state television Magyar Televízió.
In May 2010, he was appointed Hungary's Secretary of State for Culture by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In 2011, he was elected president of the Hungarian Pen Club. He resigned from his position in June 2012. He was replaced by László L. Simon. Szőcs became an adviser to Prime Minister Orbán.
Géza Szőcs has five children.

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